This year marks 15 years since the Asian American Studies Program was approved by the University Senate and launched at the University of Maryland. Please join us as we celebrate the accomplishments of the Program and recognize the 2015 AAST minor graduates and 2015-2016 Asian American Studies scholarship recipients.
Read MoreThis year marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act which opened the doors to the second wave of Asian immigration that brought many of our parents to the United States. Join this conversation with Professors Janelle Wong, Director of the Asian American Studies Program, and Deepa Iyer, AAST's Activist-in-Residence, to learn about how the 1965 law changed policy and perceptions, and to discuss what it means to our communities today.
Read MoreIn 1973, together with Chris Iijima and Charlie Chin, Nobuko Miyamoto created the first album of Asian American music, "A Grain of Sand," now part of the Smithsonian Institution collection. The album has been hailed as the soundtrack of the Asian American Movement. Since 1978, Miyamoto has been Artistic Director of Great Leap, Inc., a non-profit arts organization which uses the arts to promote deeper understanding between the diverse cultures of America.
Read MoreDr. Amy Bhatt examines how family formation, marriage and reproduction allow temporary Indian migrants to make claims on the U.S. state even though they are classified as "non-immigrant" workers who are expected to return to their home country of India. Using ethnographic and online evidence, Dr. Bhatt examines how reproduction becomes a strategy for renegotiating the value of national citizenship in the face of neoliberal immigration and labor policies.
Read MoreThis forum includes prominent community activists who seek to bring
attention to pressing Asian American issues through the media arts.
In the Spring 2011 semester, UMCP AAST continued to build on the relationship with the Smithsonian by encouraging students in Prof. Nash's Asian American Oral History class to conduct interviews of APAs and others that could be used by scholars who were developing the 2011 Folklife Festival.
Read MoreThe AAST banquet was held on April 28, 2011, where the recipients of the 2011 AAST Scholarships were awarded. The night was a great success and would have not been possible without the support of those in attendance. Special thanks are due to the AAST Scholarship Committee, the benefactors, and the students who applied.
Read MoreIn January 2011, Lisa Rose Mar was invited to talk about her book Brokering Belonging at the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria. During her visit to Canada, the Sing Tao Daily News printed a feature interview with Dr. Mar about Brokering Belonging. Oxford University Press has also published a new searchable database edition of Brokering Belonging in its digital book collection, Oxford Scholarship On-Line.
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